If you didn't live through the 1970's it's hard to imagine how popular Steve Martin was.

@snoojie

2 жыл бұрын

I can't count how many times I've watched All of Me. His physical comedy was inspiring. And I've been able to spell "Albuquerque" since I was young thanks to Roxanne.

@douglaslowe5

Жыл бұрын

i was in high school..all us nerds knew every one of his album routines verbatim. they were funny then, but havent aged well.

@AdamStarling

Жыл бұрын

@@douglaslowe5 How would you say they haven't aged well? I don't necessarily disagree, but how would you articulate it?

@cletusspucklerstablejeaniu1059

Жыл бұрын

He was a Jerk.

@toonybrain

6 ай бұрын

Soooo true

5:33 No cgi, no safety gear, no wires. Live tv no delay. Bill could have tripped, set himself, Steve, the audience on fire. I miss this world.

@johnnybraccia452

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I was shocked when he did it. I thought it was going to be part of the bit that he would NOT jump through a ring of fire.

@VIRGONOMICS

Ай бұрын

Me too, the ANALOG WORLD. Technology will destroy us .

Andy Warhol said it's better to look old when you're young. Then when you're old people will say you look great.

@fordsgirl8096

3 жыл бұрын

Great, But what does that have to do with this monolouge?

@Drew__Films

3 жыл бұрын

It would be hilarious if he dyed his hair when he got older. Then he'd really mindfuck everyone lol

@Jimbo_McBacon

2 жыл бұрын

@@Drew__Films I don't think he's done that for any projects. That would completely blow my mind. He should do one as a ginge. That'd be incredible

@Jimbo_McBacon

2 жыл бұрын

@@fordsgirl8096 I once met a guy who cracked his head pretty good when he was a young kid. Where he hit his head the hair grew white, while the rest of his hair was chestnut brown. Pretty strange huh?

Steve Martin and Bill Murray are hilarious

Steve Martin is one of the funniest comedians ever. My mother and I went to see him live, in-person here in Utah. I can't remember what year, but somewhere between the late 70s and early 80s.

The 1970's SNL was the absolute, best cast ever! Steve Martin is one of my favorite Comedians!

@gustafsone

4 жыл бұрын

What blows my mind is that Steve Martin was never actually a cast member at SNL. It sure seemed like it with the amount of sketches he was in, but he was only a special guest/host. I suppose it was the combination of sketch comedy being in its infancy back then, so there weren't a lot of guest hosts to call up who SNL or themselves felt confident in their ability to do comedy, and also that Steve Martin was so damn good that his sketches stand out above nearly every other guest host during that era of SNL that these are almost all we see nowadays so it's easy to assume he was a regular castmember.

@johngullo9420

3 жыл бұрын

SNL has sucked for the last 20 years.

@fran8926

3 жыл бұрын

@@johngullo9420 wow so original. I liked the 2000-2013 SNL

@twinkieman237

3 жыл бұрын

The 90’s were pretty good too

@douglaslowe5

3 жыл бұрын

@@johngullo9420 totally disagree. Kate Mckinnon is best cast member ever. SNL was always hit and miss..it's never been more consistently funny than right now. (I do think it's become overly political though).

Bill was the first ever new cast member. The new kid on the block. Everyone got to pick on him

@bedaziochannel

18 күн бұрын

Bill was an SCTV alum, like Ackroyd, Belushi and Radner.

Bill Murray looks so much younger.. Steve Martin looks the same

@wildwoodandonyx

4 жыл бұрын

sunnylilme - Yeah, it’s amazing how in 1977, we all looked younger. I looked like I was 11! Crazy.

@sunnylilme

4 жыл бұрын

@@wildwoodandonyx is it just me, or does Steve Martin look EXACTLY the same age then and now?

@EvilTwin123

4 жыл бұрын

Ya think? Maybe later well go through baby pictures and comment on their rolls of fat too?

@tyro244

4 жыл бұрын

I think it's the hair. My brother-in-law has the same white hair since he was a child. It's caused by a vitamin deficiency. No biggie, but we all perceive white hair as only something old people have. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@EvilTwin123

4 жыл бұрын

@@tyro244 Neighbor growing up had grey/white hair at 13. One kid in my class had such white hair it glowed in the dark on a trip to the aquarium.

This monologue was on an SNL compilation tape that came out in the 90's at some point, and I watched it (and I don't think I'm exaggerating when I say this) ALL THE TIME. I am so glad to be able to see it again. Love Bill, love Steve, and I still say things like, "But never at dusk..." every once in a while just to see who notices.

This was 42 years ago, but Steve has aged about 5.

To see these two geniuses back when they were young...I remember them & still love them today!

Steve Martin is undoubtedly the best guest on SNL

I remember seeing this live. Steve Martin is a genius ❤. I was 12 lol

Love the old bits he did, like - let's get small, the 'I forgot', cat handcuffs, happy feet, arrow through the head, etc

Saw this and just had to watch!! My mom had his comedy album on 8-track, A Wild and Crazy Guy, and we always listened to it on the way to Charleston. Loved it when he hosted SNL.

Here It is in the early, late, mid morning and I’m smoking marijuana watching ancient SNL clips in early, late, mid 2020

@heydeanie

3 жыл бұрын

Ok but never at dusk!!

@eternalextrapolations

3 жыл бұрын

A portrait of the future

@marthawerbiansky3353

3 жыл бұрын

It’s 8:30. smoking a doobie....still 2020..mornings.....best time

@hippiepeace8614

2 жыл бұрын

@@marthawerbiansky3353 still 2021

@vickiebunch3072

Жыл бұрын

Funnier now, huh?!

"this changes things for me financially."

Steve only owned one suit back then.

@CigarDoug

Жыл бұрын

He had to pour all his money into crackers.

When you can rock silver hair at a fairly young age than most young people can do with blue hair, then you know you're gonna be legendary

@ardishorwich4601

8 ай бұрын

One of my big turn ons is a handsome face with premature gray hair. Steve Martin is the greatest.

got a lot of mileage out of that suit back then

@sirphineasluciusambercromb9114

4 жыл бұрын

Cotton-Polyester blends seemed to be popular that decade

@SonnyGTA

4 жыл бұрын

ultrakool oh yeah!!!!!

@cc1k435

3 жыл бұрын

I see this and think of Fantasy Island and Ricardo Montalban, every time.

@SailHatinSoap

3 жыл бұрын

I'd wear this suit

@MD-wk3gj

Жыл бұрын

It was brilliant branding. If you saw him once you instantly knew it was Steve if you saw him again on tv.

Little did we know the whole time Steve was rewarding Bill with a placebo, the gateway drug to self destruction.

@markfryer9880

4 жыл бұрын

The Cad. How could he be so cruel.

@everready19373

3 жыл бұрын

No dummy, he's feeding him treats, like trained dog.

@kelly2fly

3 жыл бұрын

@@everready19373 thanks Captain Obvious

@macsnafu

Жыл бұрын

Well, you didn't think those were just *regular* crackers, did you? They're laced with sugar!

@Roostermania2010

Жыл бұрын

@@everready19373 "...he's feeding him treats, like a trained... DOG" 🤣🙃😂🙃🤣😎😁😎😁 Funny... I thought Murray was mimicking A SEAL -- The placebo joke is way above your 6yr old pay grade 🤔

I was waiting for Bill to say, “Steve, these placebo pills have got me high as a kite I could swear that hoop is on fire.”

@umreeh

4 жыл бұрын

Did not think he was going to go through the hoop.

@thewalkingmic5

2 жыл бұрын

That would’ve been Golden

@leahplyler

Жыл бұрын

IKR!

Bill Murray started the mullet!!!

It's jarring to see this after forty years and to remember seeing this sketch in context.

@littleitaly83

2 жыл бұрын

I was born in 83,so I'm not sure what context that is?

Bill was still 14 years away from Groundhog greatness.

@vincentlok8894

4 жыл бұрын

Gary Stump Sr but meatballs was way better than Groundhog Day.

I'd pay a lot for that clamp... I adore Steve Martin! My uncle is 18 years older than me, so I became a huge Steve fan at 2 years old. "King Tut" was one of the first songs I knew. Love his banjo work also, he is very talented!

@johnoverhoff2373

Жыл бұрын

2of the best then &now

@ardishorwich4601

11 ай бұрын

My daughter who is 20 always has loved Steve Martin. She never saw this skit. When she was 11 I embarrassed her at a hardware store when I walked around with a clamp on my head until we checked out. Years later she saw it and finally got it.

Steve is one of a kind ! What a legend. And he is still going strong today. The Only murders in the building show is in an another class than most , if not all other tv shows today.

I remember this,I was 22 years old...damn, it still cracks me up!

@goodbadbill

2 жыл бұрын

was that a pun? if it was good job mate

Oh man this brings back an old bad placebo trip i had

1974? Steve Martin must be a Space Alien that lives for Over 200 years.

@simonpeter5032

4 жыл бұрын

200? more like 2,000.

@hectorheathcote9495

4 жыл бұрын

This is season 4. From November, 1979. Not 1974.

@danithompson1693

4 жыл бұрын

@@hectorheathcote9495 1979. I know the marijuana bit comes straight from one of Steve's albums. My guess is Wild and Crazy Guy, his second, but it could be from Comedy Is Not Pretty, the third album.

@jimrebr

Жыл бұрын

SNL didn’t even start until 1975, so yes, obviously 1979 not 1974, since there was no SNL yet.

@katharinenoble1682

21 күн бұрын

Well.... maybe.... so is Keith Richards, except Steven Martin looks *great*. (Keith looks like he's.... hanging on.)

Not quite what I was expecting from the description “cracker monologue “. But it’ll do.

I'm so glad I got to see Steve Martin in person in 1978 in Chicago. What a great show; a number of audience members wore the 'arrow thru the head' prop Steve used. He took time for some serious banjo playing, too.

@tomryan4968

4 ай бұрын

Was that show at the Arie Crown theater at McCormick Place? If so, I was there, too. John Sebastian was the opening act.

@richardblayneamerican8149

4 ай бұрын

@@tomryan4968 Yes! That was the show. Small world.

I remember watching this the night it originally aired.

@danaoct293

4 жыл бұрын

was it funny way back then?

@brianleblanc7893

4 жыл бұрын

Me Also

@Griffindor1955

4 жыл бұрын

Same! Yes, it was hilarious. But of course we were smoking in the late early afternoon morning evening.

@paullawrence9056

3 жыл бұрын

Me too! Every show was golden back then. And then on Monday at school we would talk about and go over every sketch.

@lauren3024

2 жыл бұрын

@@paullawrence9056 that’s so cool!! I sometimes feel like I’m one of the only people my age that watches SNL (I’m 16) and every time I talk about it with people at school, some of them don’t even know what it is! 😟 I wish SNL was still in it’s prime, so people my age would still probably watch it, and I could talk about it with my friends at school

The old 6B studio where Dave Letterman had his show for years.... and in the back I can see Paul Shafer.... And of course Bill was the first guest on that show..... Steve was the best, funny as can be... Get him with Bill and it is a comedy dream team...

I just finished steve’s martin‘s autobiography book about stand-up comedy and I have to say is one of the best books I’ve ever read about mastering a craft

@Cosmocarreon3045

2 жыл бұрын

What’s the name of the book? I’m interested in reading it

@zaidilyas6663

2 жыл бұрын

@@Cosmocarreon3045 born standing up

@Cosmocarreon3045

2 жыл бұрын

@@zaidilyas6663 thank you

Him describing his weed smoking is me af 🤣💨🔥

Two great actors and comedians.

They both were handsomer than I remember from back then... and younger!

I kinda like it better like this. It was more personal like a live comedy show.

Was Steve Martin born with silver hair?

@mlfeathers7527

4 жыл бұрын

Jürgen Sven Fuchs almost.

@futoijosei

4 жыл бұрын

He got it young. That's why he doesn't seem to age.

@Knickerson

4 жыл бұрын

Somewhere there’s an old clip of Steve Martin as a contestant on “The Dating Game” pre-white hair.

@millennialsdelight

4 жыл бұрын

He doesn't have silver hair in Little Shop of Horrors. It was jarring to see him without it.

@futoijosei

4 жыл бұрын

@@millennialsdelight I know. He was so young then.

Ah the good old days of great comedy

I remember watching live. Funny then, still hilarious now! 🤣🤣🤣

@johngalush8790

Жыл бұрын

It was never live.

2 of my 3 favorite comedians of all-time...the 3rd being Robin Williams.

This is when SNL monologues were good. Steve Martin was and is a genius when it comes to comedy.

@pplrstrange

2 жыл бұрын

Yes but his biggest downside is, um, he was, he, nevermind.

@prestonhunter6709

2 жыл бұрын

instablaster

@tmseh

2 жыл бұрын

The cocaine was pretty good. Thanks Chevy.

@jeneraljax29

2 жыл бұрын

@@pplrstrange he was what?

@pplrstrange

2 жыл бұрын

@@jeneraljax29 exactly. You got it.

I wish all my friends were this well trained!

Still, one of top-25 openers in SNL history.

Two of the best OG actors of all time😆😆😆

One of the best monologues with two people in that I ever saw..

WOW 1979 SNL in Its Original hey-day

For our “May Day” routine in 6th grade we did the King Tut song and dance. We spent late 70’s imitating Steve Martin. We were all just wild and crazy guys.

Bill alone is the whole Monty Python and more, even when silent:-)

As I practiced, I realized I could do more than I possibly imagined (9/8/79)

Where French Stewart really got his "Harry" face: 1:44

Bill Murray looks like he could have played David Banner or Michael Knight in this

Love these guys!!

It’s not a monologue with two people.

The two guys Frank Oz seems to love putting in his movies

Can anyone hook me up with some placebos? I'll pay top dollar.

That was brilliant. I wish I had been old enough to see this when it came out!

I watched this with Dad at age 11 and it was the best. I didn’t understand some of the material, but Dad sure did. Great times.

This is the kind of bold experiment which ws somewhat common back then. Ernie Kovacs and Steve Allen were even more outre :)

Damn steve , you one of the old school puppets...😅😅

Where were you in 1979? I missed most of these shows. I had a life. Now I'm watching what I missed. I didn't think I would get to this age. I didn't plan for it. I was too busy

Only occasionally mid, late afternoon. Never at dusk.

I was 10 years old and a major fan ( I even understood most of the jokes ) and he played for a week at the Garden States Arts Center of August 1979 .... Anyone else ?

I remember watching that episode when it was live.

Both such talented comedians

This before Caddy Shack and Ghost Busters. Bill's career skyrocket after this year.

Funnnnnny, clean humor... Could not have a "Cracker skit these days lol

I remember watching this episode

You never hear these two guys ever talk about each other, I can't find anything.

@ErikPortland

2 жыл бұрын

they're briefly in Little Shop of Horrors together, but that's it

This is 40 years ago. Not many things to watch on tv. Only about 5 stations to pick from. Joe Franklin was the only thing on after 12.

@timfart9414

4 жыл бұрын

The Movie Loft

Steve, one of the greatest!

Bill Murray was really cute back then.

@lindaclark5911

4 жыл бұрын

* Lotusblume * still is

@gracie8077

3 жыл бұрын

Linda Clark ehhhhhhhh

As a kid I got my taste of True Humer from this Wonderful man

Good ole Steve!!! Ha, I have 2 of those vice clamps - they're my improve 'vice' to hold things on a steel apt. deck railing I use for projects 😆

this beats ANY SNL opening monologue after 2020...all the music stars, celebrities today have not even quarter of the talent of 70-2000s

Reject modern SNL, embrace tradition

That suit is Clean as FUCK tho

This made my day

This isn't November 1979.. Bill Murray got his haircut short by then.. This is November 1978!

45 years late, but ... thumbs up!

I get such a Lemony Snicket vibe from him (Steve)

He's the "Head of Vice Control!"

Does anyone remember when he hosted & put a plate of tuna down his pants? Then he put 2 kittens down his pants!

ah the good ole days!

Wild n crazy guys⚘♥️⚘

Holy crap . . . NBC allowed that ring of fire on stage (?)

Legends

Dear Paint: I’m watching you dry on the wall now baby and you are funnier than Steve Martin and Bill Murray. - Chris Chichester, Rochester N.Y.

SNL, November 4, 1977 New York City, Host, Steve Martin.

My dog is turning 12 & he is getting pretty stubborn all of a sudden, too!

Classic

I used to get leg clamps. I found that stretching helped a lot.

Well excuuuuseee meeee

Steve Martin was very popular,he was everywhere.

A total hilarious funny guy

Musical guest Van Morrison. Let that sink in for a minute. Yeah, that's how ground breaking this show was

@anne-droid7739

4 жыл бұрын

Can't fault you on that. We did have to learn to appreciate Buck Henry. Our reward was Andy Kaufman. (Plus, we never had to listen to Kanye West, and that made our adolescent years absolutely golden.)

@anne-droid7739

4 жыл бұрын

Also, George Carlin and Bowie were always worth the wait. We knew how to be patient. We didn't enjoy it any more than you do, but the payoff was a lot better.

@anne-droid7739

4 жыл бұрын

Here's an example. This is what was expected out of George Carlin on the Smothers Brothers: kzread.info/dash/bejne/aKye2M-ShqqoicY.html And this is how he was allowed to expand later on SNL: kzread.info/dash/bejne/Z5mW266kc8SnfJM.html Before cable was widely available, this made a big difference. It was engaging to see someone who might get bleeped or amusingly misunderstood by our parents, instead of having to sit through someone like Bob Hope...and most of the musical guests like Devo and Gary Numan were more interesting than getting the warmed-over Patti Page we could expect elsewhere.

@anne-droid7739

4 жыл бұрын

Jesus, just writing this has reminded me of how dim variety shows used to be. God bless SNL; they raised the bar, and now nobody has to sit through the DeFranco family singers or a bunch of sad vaudevillian clowns on unicycles unless they decide to go slumming on KZread.

An absolute hilarious funny guy

@elvicare35

6 ай бұрын

Funny KIND of guy!!!

I've watched this no less than 10 times and I'm still not clear if he really jumped through that fire or not.

@scribe570

4 жыл бұрын

Well, of course he did. His back foot kind of dragged through it. He is lucky that didn't knock it over in his direction.

@KN-ev1tq

4 жыл бұрын

I went back to look again, because it appeared that the circle of fire turned sideways, so he was running past it, not jumping through it. If you stop the video at 5:36, you can see that's the case, though Idk how they moved it. You know he's not going through it because, if he were, his body would block part of the flaming circle as he passes in front of it. He is behind it the whole time. The only way that's possible is that the flaming circle is parallel to him.

@dickdiggler3234

4 жыл бұрын

Kim N you are CORRECT!!!!! FINALLY MAKES SENSE. I always knew (or strongly suspected at least), that something was up. There had to be some camera trickery going on because the entire bit is filmed straight on. They only move to a 2/3 angle so that one shot. The only possible reason is because there's some kind of camera trick happening. Your theory makes perfect sense.

@oneguerrero

3 жыл бұрын

He did jump through. If you pause it you can see that his upper body is blocking the flames while his feet are behind. Only way that happens is if he's going through the hoop. Plus this show is aired live. They don't stop.